g. gordon liddy, ex-fbi, ex-treasury, ex-justice, ex-white house consultant, and e.d hunt jr., ex-cia, ex-bay of pigs planner, ex-white house consultant. >> we didn't think they measured up. it was closer to the typical gang that couldn't shoot straight. >> earl silva read the names of 60 government witnesses. the list included only one low ranking white house lawyer and several former employees of the committee to re-elect the president. >> if you don't know richard nixon's psychology, you don't know his background, you could never understand why the white house reacted to watergate the way it does. >> from day one, there was a great sense that we were under siege. and we were not deceiving ourselves that the press did not like us. both houses of congress did not like nixon. i mean, that is the truth. and the question is how you deal with it. >> he tries to build a little like mafiosa group out of the oval office, guys that will take the bullet for you. pure loyalty. they fell under his spell. >> president nixon created a what you'd have to call a paranoid atmospher

g. gordon liddy. here they found a maniac and put him in the white house. [laughter] ms. stahl: well, it was funny. i did some research on the 25th amendment. the cabinet majority can vote, for that, but the president has to agree. if the president does not agree, then -- and the cabinet comes back and votes for it again, then 2/3 of both chambers of the congress have to endorse it. so it ain't gonna happen. ok. mr. weicker: you heard it here first. ms. stahl: anybody here want to talk about -- a lot of laws came out of watergate. campaign finance and the prosecutor's law, and there were others. they have all been diluted since then. either they are not there anymore or they are diluted. i wonder -- what's the legacy? i know you said that we can now question presidents. is there any other lasting legacy, positive or negative? certainly, it changed the press. mr. dorsen: i think the campaign finance laws would have been -- a lot of this is a product of our complex system of government . trumpseech campaign-finance, which actually, i have written a book, too, which says tha

no, he accomplished something, and another person crediterves some minimal for this is g gordon liddy. if he had pled guilty, we would not have had watergate. he made blunder after blunder, which allowed all this to come a pushed siric everybody. there were extraordinary twists and turns that have not been explored. i think it is important to remember that the only people involved were the seven defendants, and the senate did not leave it. that's why the watergate committee was established. squeezing sirica was the burglars and then the next layer and the next layer, and he cut saying, you have to tell me about the higher-ups. you keep talking about sam dash organizing hearings in a way that told a story, but was the purpose the same as the purpose to squeeze your witnesses? in other words, did you always have the president in mind and were you always pointing in that direction? we started, we did not think this thing was going to go very high. think quite frankly, we were all astounded as the evidence started coming in, particularly as we started talking to john. it snowballed quickl